Thanks to Smart Home Junkie’s video (invidious link), I had my Atom Echos as voice recognition boxes with all audio output redirected to a media player of my choice (because the audio on the Echo is super quiet).
Whenever ESPHome updated, I updated my Echos to get the recent ESPHome updates, and then reinstalled the custom yaml for audio redirection.
However, with ESPHome’s recent 2024.6.4 update, trying to install the yaml triggers errors that don’t seem to make sense. For example, here’s a section of the yaml:
microphone:
- platform: i2s_audio
id: echo_microphone_kitchen
i2s_din_pin: GPIO23
adc_type: external
pdm: true
speaker:
- platform: i2s_audio
id: echo_speaker_kitchen
i2s_dout_pin: GPIO21
dac_type: external
mode: mono
voice_assistant:
id: va
microphone: echo_microphone_kitchen
speaker: echo_speaker_kitchen
noise_suppression_level: 2
auto_gain: 31dBFS
volume_multiplier: 2.0
vad_threshold: 3
on_listening:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 100%
red: 0%
green: 0%
effect: "Slow Pulse"
on_stt_vad_end:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 100%
red: 0%
green: 0%
effect: "Fast Pulse"
on_tts_start:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 100%
red: 0%
green: 0%
brightness: 100%
effect: none
on_tts_end:
- homeassistant.service:
service: media_player.play_media
data:
entity_id: media_player.${media_player}
media_content_id: !lambda 'return x;'
media_content_type: music
announce: "false"
on_end:
- delay: 100ms
- wait_until:
not:
speaker.is_playing:
- script.execute: reset_led
on_error:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
red: 100%
green: 0%
blue: 0%
brightness: 100%
effect: none
- delay: 1s
- script.execute: reset_led
on_client_connected:
- if:
condition:
switch.is_on: use_wake_word
then:
- voice_assistant.start_continuous:
- script.execute: reset_led
on_client_disconnected:
- if:
condition:
switch.is_on: use_wake_word
then:
- voice_assistant.stop:
- light.turn_off: led
external_components:
- source: github://pr#5230
components:
- esp_adf
refresh: 0s
esp_adf:
On lines 3 and 10 I define unique IDs for the device’s microphone and speaker.
But ESPHome won’t compile, telling me:
- on line 46: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘speaker::Speaker’ Some are ‘echo_speaker’, ‘echo_speaker_kitchen’.
- on line 57: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘speaker::Speaker’ Some are ‘echo_speaker’, ‘echo_speaker_kitchen’.
- on line 77: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘microphone::Microphone’ Some are ‘echo_microphone’, ‘echo_microphone_kitchen’.
- on line 90: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘speaker::Speaker’ Some are ‘echo_speaker’, ‘echo_speaker_kitchen’.
There are no other occurrences of the word “speaker” or “microphone” in the conf yaml (and I’m not including other yaml files).
I’m assuming most of this config is default, and the only things I care about are forcing pin 21 for the speaker (line 11) and redirecting audio to my media player (lines 45-52).
Sorry, I misunderstood what you are trying to do here. I thought you were trying to use the Atom Echo itself as a media player. Disregard that arduino library comment, it isn’t relevant. I just watched the video since I couldn’t earlier.
Indeed what you are doing should work. Are you certain that the upload was successful? With GPIO21 set as the speaker output, the speaker data should absolutely not work. The fact that it does means that somewhere along the line, the GPIO22 is set as the speaker output.
Well, I wasn’t able to figure this out and was just living with duplicate audio coming from the echo and the media player mostly simultaneously. But today I upgraded ESPHome from 2024.6.6 to 2024.7.0 and the problem is gone. Sheesh! :)